Racing Odysseus : a college president becomes a freshman again / / Roger H. Martin

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910825050303321
• Autore: Martin Roger H. <1943->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2008
• ISBN: 1-281-75270-3; 1-4356-8480-X; 9786611752705; 0-520-94207-8
• Edizione: [Reprint 2020]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (276 p.)
• Disciplina: 378.1/11; B
• Soggetti: College presidents - United States; Adult college students - United States; Cancer - Patients - United States
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 261-262).
• Nota di contenuto: CONTENTS; Acknowledgments; Prologue; 1. Orientation (Four Years Later); 2. Hubris; 3. Homesickness; 4. Dysfunctional Families; 5. Navy; 6. Old Farts; 7. Community; 8. Victory; Epilogue; Bibliography
• Sommario/riassunto: The idea of reliving youth is a common fantasy, but who among us is actually courageous enough to try it? After surviving a deadly cancer against tremendous odds, college president Roger H. Martin did just that?he enrolled at St. John's College, the Great Books school in Annapolis, Maryland, as a sixty-one-year-old freshman. This engaging, often humorous memoir of his semester at St. John's tells of his journey of discovery as he falls in love again with Plato, Socrates, and Homer, improbably joins the college crew team, and negotiates friendships across generational divides. Along the way, Ma